Ruslana (Lyzhychko) is a famous Ukrainian singer, songwriter, music producer, the only Ukrainian winner of Eurovision, born on May 24, 1973 in Lviv.
Childhood
Ruslana's parents were simple, ordinary engineers, far from the world of show business. My father had Hutsul roots, loved folk music and sang well. The mother, although she did not have a musical education, was well versed in music and instilled in her daughter a love for it from childhood. It was the mother who took the girl to music school and encouraged her creative abilities in every possible way.
Ruslana always liked music. In an interview, she said that she doesn’t remember not singing. Almost from kindergarten age she performed on stage. Her first creative team was the children's ensemble “Smile”. Having matured a little, the girl became a soloist in instrumental children's groups. There she not only sang, but also played musical instruments.
Start of a musical career
By the time it ends secondary school Ruslana already knew for sure that her calling was music, to which she devoted all of her free time. And in 1995, Ruslana easily entered the conservatory to receive an academic music education. In the same year, she decides that it is time to seriously declare herself in musical world.
After spending a whole year on preliminary preparation, in 1996 Ruslana went to the prestigious music competition « Slavic Bazaar”, which wins brilliantly. The song with which Ruslana made her debut, “Dzvinky Viter,” instantly becomes a hit, and Ruslana herself receives the title of Singer of the Year.
From this moment on, her husband, Alexander Ksenofontov, in whose band Ruslana began her musical career, gives her the palm and becomes her faithful shoulder in the musical world. He takes full charge of everything technical issues, organizing performances, producing, giving Ruslana the right to create and live only by music.
Just a year later, Ruslana and her husband create their first serious and large-scale creative project- the program “Christmas with Ruslana”, which airs on the Lviv TV channel. The most talented people take part in the program Ukrainian performers and she brings Ruslana even more popularity.
By 1998, Ruslana managed to prepare her first full-length disc, which includes the best of her songs. The song “Svitanok” is rapidly rising to the top of the Ukrainian charts and is heard in literally every home. She wins the title “Song of the Year”, and Ruslana actively begins to tour with solo concerts.
Conquering Eurovision
Being a big fan of Ukrainian folk music, on which she grew up, Ruslana decides to dedicate new album magical Christmas songs. They entered it as originally folk songs, as well as Ruslana’s original works, which sounded new in the singer’s original arrangement. The album was also very warmly received by both listeners and critics.
Such an unusual combination of folk and modern music has become peculiar business card singers. She actively continued her work, practically creating a new musical direction.
The result of three years of work was the new album “Good evening to you”, released in 2003, and literally six months later a record with the strange name “Wild Dances” was released, which literally broke the musical Olympus.
Wild Dances
From the very beginning musical career Ruslana set herself maximum goals, one of which was to convey beauty Ukrainian music to the European listener.
It was this dream that forced the singer to release the English-language version of the album “Wild Dances,” which very quickly sold millions of copies in nearby countries, and in Romania even became the best foreign album.
In the same year, which became truly stellar in the singer’s biography, Ruslana and her team went to represent Ukraine at Eurovision, where they won brilliantly, receiving the highest ratings of all other performers at that time. This year she fulfilled her dream, proudly declaring Ukraine to the whole of Europe.
For this victory, Ruslana received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.
The following year, Ruslana already opened the Eurovision Song Contest and took part in it in a new capacity - as an honorary guest of the festival. “Wild Dances” remained at the top of the music charts for more than two years. In 2006 "Wild Dancing" German television announced best composition in the history of Eurovision.
Continuation of the creative path
But, having become the winner of the prestigious competition, Ruslana did not calm down. In 2008 she released a new music album“Amazon” and the English-language disc “Wild Energy”, which she recorded with world-class performers. The album also quickly became popular and sold throughout Europe.
Ruslana continues to actively tour, write music and produce young performers. Very often she is a member of the jury of the most prestigious Ukrainian music competitions. She also successfully collaborated with one of the most popular TV shows, “The Voice of the Krajina,” as a star coach.
After almost complete silence, which the singer associates with the unstable political situation in the country, Ruslana literally burst into Eurovision 2017, presenting the premiere of the song “I Love”. The singer's performance was very bright and was accompanied by complex staged special effects, for example, a real thunderstorm. To achieve this effect, expensive equipment was used.
As the singer admitted, work on the new album began before the events on the Maidan. And Ruslana was able to resume recording the album only in 2015. In order for the performance to be spectacular and completely different from what happened in “Wild Dances,” Ruslana had to thoroughly study the Carpathian exoticism. To do this, the singer went to the Carpathians, where she studied a unique technique for performing songs in the mountains. It turned out that this unique technique even capable of healing.
Ruslana performs the composition “I Love” wearing real chain mail, which, according to the singer, weighs about 10 kg. To be in amazing shape, Ruslana all year round hardens ice water and exercises the body for at least 4-5 hours daily. This also affected vocal performance Ruslana: the singer learned to maintain almost perfect breathing while singing and dancing.
According to the singer, her life after she ended up on big stage and in politics, has turned into a continuous professional activity. Giving her 100 percent and sacrificing herself for the sake of art, Ruslana continues to give listeners beautiful songs with amazing energy. And she simply cannot do it any other way.
Political activity
Being an active fighter for freedom and justice, Ruslana takes the side of Viktor Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution. However, his party loses that year. In 2006, at the party elections, Ruslana was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a deputy from the Our Ukraine party.
However political activity brings her nothing but disappointment, and very soon Ruslana gives up her mandate and again plunges into the familiar world of music.
Personal life
For 20 years now, Ruslana has been going through life with her beloved husband, her own producer, loyal friend and like-minded person Alexander Ksenofontov. The couple still does not have children - all this time Ruslana was busy with creativity and actively toured. Only now the couple started talking about the fact that it is time to have offspring.
Place of birth: Baku
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Ruslana G is a popular beauty blogger. Ruslana is originally from Azerbaijan. The girl was born and raised in the city of Baku. After graduating from school, Ruslana Ji moved to Turkey, to the city of Istanbul. In Turkey, Ruslana entered college to study journalism.
Ruslana G on YouTube
Ruslana registered her channel in the spring of 2014. When Ruslana first started making videos, her channel was little known. But in 2016, the girl became very popular. Ruslana Ji makes a video of various nature. Ruslana devotes a lot of time to her career. After the girl moved to Istanbul, she began working as a model. Ruslana does not have model parameters, but this did not stop her from becoming the face of several Turkish brands. Ruslana's height is 166 centimeters, weight is 51 kilograms.
Ruslana is very hardworking; she devotes time not only to her career, but also to her studies. In 2017, Ruslana plans to move to the USA. In the states, the girl plans to continue her studies in journalism.
At 19 years old, the girl earns good money. The channel on YouTube and Instagram brings good money to Ruslana. The girl, in her videos, motivates girls to do what they love, just like her. Also, in the video, Ruslana shares women's secrets of perfect makeup. Such videos receive more than 1 million views.
Personal life
Ruslana hides her personal life from her subscribers. It is known that the girl has a boyfriend. She showed him in her videos, but his face was not included in the frame. Ruslana's boyfriend lives in Azerbaijan. The girl shared her emotions for the man in her video. Ruslana believes that distance is a test of relationships.
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Ruslana's family
Ruslana Stepanovna Lyzhichko was born in the Ukrainian city of Lvov. The mother of the future singer, Nina Arkadyevna, worked at the Lvov Petrochemical Institute. But after her daughter’s musical career took off, she changed her field of activity. Now my mother works as a chief media manager at her daughter’s production center, which is called “Studio Luxen”.Ruslana's father, Stepan Ivanovich, is now engaged in business. Previously, he and the mother of the future singer worked as a heating engineer at a petrochemical institute. True, the singer’s parents have not lived in this place for a long time - they have been divorced since 1981.
Ruslana Lyzhichko has a sister, Anna.
Ruslana's studies and first laurels
Little Ruslana’s mother sent her to music school. Childhood can be considered the time when a career began famous singer. Even then, Ruslana participated as a vocalist in the groups “Horizon” and “Orion”, and sang in the children’s ensemble “Smile”.The girl received her general education at the 52nd secondary school in the city of Lvov. After graduating from school, Lyzhichko entered the conservatory, where she graduated in 1995 with a degree in conducting symphony orchestra" and "pianist".
In 1996, Ruslana won the Slavic Bazaar festival. The same year also brought Ruslana Stepanovna a nomination in Ukraine for the title of Singer of the Year, in addition, and the video for her song “Dzvinkiy Wind” was awarded a nomination for “Best Video”. By that time, the singer’s husband (married since December 1995), Alexander Ksenofontov, began producing the “Ruslana” project and writing songs for it.
In Lvov, in 1997, Ruslana began working on the television project “Christmas with Ruslana,” which became the first Christmas television program from this city.
Musical career of Ruslana Lyzhichko
In 1998, Ruslana released her debut album entitled “Dzvinkiy Viter” (“Sounding Wind”). Critics responded positively to this album. One of the songs from this disc - “Svitanok” - became “ Best song year" on music festival"Golden Firebird" in 1998.Ruslana - Wild dancing
In 1999, the singer released a disc of Christmas songs “Ostannie Rizdvo 90-x” (“the last Christmas of the 90s”), the track list of which included folk and original Christmas works in original instrumental arrangements. Ruslana continued the same theme in her next studio work in 2003 - “Good Evening Tobi...” (“ Good evening You…").
Ruslana, remembering her Hutsul (paternal) origin, began to actively combine in her music the motifs of Hutsul melodies, saturated with the sound of Ukrainian folk instruments, with the current dance sound and rhythms. Her experiments in this area culminated in the release in 2003 of a record called “Wild Dances”, which became platinum in Ukraine 5 times. This record sold 500 thousand copies.
In 2004, the singer released the English version of the disc called “Wild Dances” with an eye on European listeners. Romanians highly appreciated the Ukrainian artist’s work and awarded her an award for “Best Foreign Album” in 2004. The album was also nominated for an award of this type in Hungary.
2004 was one of the most eventful years in the biography of Ruslana Lyzhychko; this year she took part in the Eurovision song contest, representing Ukraine with the song “Wild Dances”. Ruslana reached the semi-finals of the competition with the second result, and in the final, which took place on May 16, 2004, the singer won this competition. All European countries, excluding Switzerland, gave Ruslana a total of 280 points. Interestingly, the video filmed for this song, after being shown on the MTV Russia channel, was recognized by critics in the TV show “12 Evil Spectators” as the worst of the week.
For her victory in Eurovision, the singer was awarded the title “People’s Artist of Ukraine” in 2004.
In 2005, Ruslana opened the competition with the song “Heart on Fire” as the winner of the previous Eurovision. Also, being an invited guest at the competition, Lyzhychko sang another new song with the title "The Same Star".
Ruslana Lyzhichko. "Visiting Dmitry Gordon"
The victory at Eurovision responded to the singer in 2006 - German TV recognized her song “Wild Dances” as the best in the history of the competition. When Azerbaijan held its national selection for this championship in 2008, Ruslana participated in its opening.
In 2008, the singer’s new studio work, “Amazon,” went on sale.
In the same 2008, Ruslana’s English-language album “Wild Energy” went on sale worldwide, which included tracks recorded together with such world-class stars as Missy Elliott and T-Pain.
Non-musical activities and personal life of Ruslana
In addition to performing, Ruslana also tried herself in the political field, supporting the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko in his election campaign. In 2006, Ruslana Lyzhychko became a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the lists of the Our Ukraine party. But the political squabbles did not please the singer, and she refused her deputy mandate.In 2011, in May, Ruslana was a “star coach” in the singing show “Voice of the Country” on the Ukrainian channel “1+1”, on which she, together with artists Stas Piekha and D. Arbenina, selected 14 each for their team participants who intend to compete for victory in this project.
In addition, Ruslana voiced a DJ on a radio station that sounds in computer game « Grand Theft Auto IV", the game was released in April 2008. The radio station (Vladivostok FM) also plays the song “Wild Dances” in the Ukrainian version.
The singer also voiced some characters in the Ukrainian dubbing of animated film"Alice's Birthday", released in 2009.
Yes, yes, from the superstar who became the first Ukrainian winner of Eurovision!
Ruslana's childhood
She was born on May 24, 1973, which means she is forty-five years old. At birth, the girl had her mother’s last name - Sapegina. We now know the star as Ruslana Lyzhichko, but Lyzhichko is her dad. Her parents are both oil workers from Lvov. When the girl was eight years old, they divorced. Mom persuaded her daughter to study music, children's ensembles and even groups began - “Smile”, “Horizon”, “Orion”... Ruslana studied at the famous Lviv school No. 52. There are some things that need to be explained here, says JoeInfoMedia journalist Diana Lynn.
With mom
The fact is that the situation in Kyiv is simple: the state language is Ukrainian, we speak whatever is convenient, everyone knows Russian. But in Lviv you either speak only Ukrainian or only Russian. And the Russian school - fifty-second - is therefore the alma mater for many people whose parents were sent to Lviv from, most often, Russian cities. So Ruslana’s mother, Sapegina, came to the city of Tono in the same way.
As a rule, children assigned to Lviv (the city was of serious importance during the Soviet Union, only major specialists were sent there) usually achieved great success in life, their parents raised them according to their level. In other schools there could be children of the same prominent specialists from Ukraine, and children ordinary people. Therefore, the percentage of graduates of other schools who became famous is much less than the number of graduates from school No. 52. And the phrase “I studied at the Lviv fifty-second school” still explains a lot.
The beginning of Ruslana's career
In 1995, she became a certified pianist and conductor - she graduated from the Lviv Conservatory. In 1996, she won at the Slavic Bazaar festival, was nominated as Ukrainian Singer of the Year, and the video “Dzvinkiy Wind” was nominated for best video. She married Alexander Ksenofontov, who became her producer! And he helped make, for example, the project “Christmas with Ruslana” - the first, by the way, television program from Lvov specifically dedicated to Christmas. In 1998 she released her first album. And the song “Svitanok” became the best song of the year at the Golden Firebird 98 festival.
Pan-European glory
Since Ruslana’s dad is a hereditary Hutsul from Western Ukraine, her daughter decided to take on Hutsul motifs, add trembita and others to the modern sound folk instruments. This is how the album “Wild Dances” appeared in 2003 - the first five-time platinum album in the country! And in 2004, an English-language version was released, eventually receiving “Best Foreign Album” in Romania and a similar nomination in Hungary! In 2004 there was Eurovision - she won!.. Two years later, German television recognized the song as “Best Eurovision Song”.
Further career
I was a deputy in Ukraine, but not for long, I realized that political and musical activity At the same time it doesn’t “pull”. Just like the current government, she officially refused to join. And she was even indignant that the modern Ukrainian government does not correspond to the ideals of the revolution, because, they say, how can it deal with them?
She was a coach in “Voice of the Country” on Ukrainian 1+1. Recorded the soundtrack for Grand games Theft Auto TV. People's Artist of Ukraine. She received the Order “For Intellectual Courage” in 2014, and the Vasily Stus Prize in 2014. She is the prototype of the main character of the novel by Marina and Sergei Dyachenko “Wild Energy. Lana” (and even recorded a song and video about this very “wild energy”). By the way, it looks great! And this. Well, happy birthday, Ruslana! Wild energy to you - and wild dancing!
One of the most popular comedians Russian Federation is Ruslan Bely. He, along with Mikhail Galustyan and Pavel Volya, constitute the color of the nation in the humorous direction.
He does not sit still, because numerous lovers of humor throughout Russia and neighboring countries are waiting for him.
The man did not become a showman right away. He left the service to share with his fans everything he knows and loves. Ruslan Bely played in several films that showed his artistic talent to the fullest. The showman dreams of playing a tragic role. He says he sees himself as Hamlet. But whether his dream will come true is unknown.
The comedy artist plays sports every day. He believes that a person should adhere to the slogan: “In healthy body- healthy mind."
Ruslan Bely, whose photo in his youth can now be found in the public domain, follows a daily routine, believing that this will help him live for 100-150 years.
The popular showman is hiding his real birth date. The artist jokingly says that he is always 30 years old. This is exactly the age he looks and feels.
Biography of Ruslan Bely
A popular actor was born in the capital of Czechoslovakia. There he spent his childhood and studied at elementary school. The father was a military man, the mother was a housewife. Ruslan has an older brother with whom he is very friendly. Then the family moves to a Polish military town with beautiful name Legnica. At the age of 12, Ruslan moves with his parents to his father’s new place of service. This time it is the Russian city of Bobrov, located near Voronezh. Despite the gaps in knowledge, the guy managed to cope with them and received a silver medal at the end of his training.
After school, the guy becomes a cadet at a military school. But he does not act according to his own wishes, but at the urgent request of his father. It was during his student years that he began to play in KVN.
Having received his diploma, Ruslan served for 5 years in one of the aviation units Voronezh region. With the rank of captain, the young man decided to leave the army. He becomes a student at the state university in the city of Voronezh.
After receiving his diploma, the talented guy takes part in “Laughter Without Rules.” Having won this television project, Ruslan bought an apartment in his city. After our hero appears on television screens, he becomes famous. The showman starred in several television films. For example, “Happy Together.”
In 2013 he opened a new show program “Stand Up”, which was very successful. loves her large number TV viewers. The popular comedian travels with programs throughout the Russian Federation.
The biography of Ruslan Bely is currently proceeding at a fast pace. A young man can be in Moscow today, and tomorrow he is already performing in Vladivostok, and the day after tomorrow in Sevastopol. The showman never gets tired, because movement is life.
Personal life of Ruslan Bely
Since 2010, every now and then in funds mass media articles appear in which they write that Ruslan Bely and Yulia Akhmedova are in a relationship. Whether they are actually dating, no one knows. The artists themselves claim that they have friendly relations. Julia considers the man to be her beloved brother, whom she never had.
Friends say that their friendship is strong. They are also familiar with student years. But when they get ready to get married, everyone will know about it.
The personal life of Ruslan Bely is carefully hidden by the showman himself. He doesn’t tell anyone who he’s in a relationship with, who his lover is. Bely himself only jokes about this issue.
Family of Ruslan Bely
The showman considers the permanent residents of Stand Apa, Mikhail Galustyan and Pavel Volya, to be his sworn brothers. He often visits them. And he baptized Galustyan’s daughter and Volya’s son.
It is known that the popular humorous figure has parents and a brother, who followed in his father’s footsteps and became a military man. Mom does housework.
Ruslan Bely's family is his friends in the club of cheerful and resourceful people, led by Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov. The popular artist often comes to games and meets with other club members.
Children of Ruslan Bely
The showman considers his children to be children who find themselves in difficult situations. life situation. He often visits orphanages in the Voronezh region and brings gifts. Bely is also a member of a foundation that provides assistance to sick children.
It is known that the popular artist has not yet become a father. He assures that as soon as this joyful event happens, everyone will know about it.
The children of Ruslan Bely are his goddaughter and godson. He baptized the girl from Mikhail Galustyan, and the boy from Pavel Volya.
Wife of Ruslan Bely
The artist is often associated with his colleague in the humorous workshop, Yulia Akhmedova. They often perform together, visiting the most remote cities of the Russian Federation. The artists themselves deny that they are members of sexual relations. They say that they are connected only by friendship.
The wife of Ruslan Bely, as he admits, means working on various projects. The showman says he is free for now. He didn't meet the one who would make him happy. As soon as she appears on his way, the man will not wait long, but will lead his beloved to officially register the marriage.
Instagram and Wikipedia of Ruslan Bely
Instagram and Wikipedia of Ruslan Bely changes quite often. Even after a few hours, information about the artist’s life and work contains news.
If on Wikipedia you can only read the most minimal information, then the page on Instagram is maintained by him very actively. Here you can read where the showman's tour will take place. On the page you can see numerous photos taken in the most remote points of the Russian Federation and neighboring countries.